Hereford Dump ( of the United States)

Where: Deaf Smith County, Texas (34.8° N, 102.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 101.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

• "Fossils are confined toa 2-foot thick stratum. The lateral extent of these beds is only a few yards in all directions"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; poorly lithified, nodular, white sandstone

• "a very localized spring-bog deposit forming a minor part of the regional caliche-'caprock' complex"
• "friable white to buff-colored sandstone beds filled with calcarous nodules and tubules"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. T. Hughes in 1953; reposited in the AMNH, UCMP

• collections "have been made by the Pandhandle Plains Historical Museum of Canyon, Texas, the University of California [Berkeley] and the Frick Laboratories"

Primary reference: P. Norton. 1954. A new Blancan vertebrate locality. Journal of Paleontology 28(4):487 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 20036: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "No invertebrates or plants have been discovered"
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus (Plesippus) cf. simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
"Equus (Plesippus) cf. simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
cf. Gigantocamelus sp.
cf. Gigantocamelus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1939 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
cf. Platygonus sp.
cf. Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet.
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet.
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle